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Which side of the virus are you on?
Can we please realize that everyone is different?
As a reading-obsessed writer, there is nothing like a crisis to make you read even more.
The one thing I see is that people are forgetting that everyone is coming into this crisis from a different place.
If this pandemic happened 15 years ago, I would have lost my job, and I would be living by myself in the Bay Area with an expensive rent payment coming due. But I made choices over the past years that have changed my position in the world. I would never have thought that taking a low paying, part-time job would make me an essential worker. Or that now more than ever, people would be wanting to eat local food and learn to cook it.
There are tradeoffs to all of the decisions that we made in the past. Try to think about the fact there are other people on the other side.
You might be alone or you might be stuck with a big family.
You might have lost a job, or you might be working even more hours before.
You might be working at home, or you might still be working on-site, worrying about bringing home the virus.
You might be trying to teach your kids in addition to work, or you might have nothing to do.
